The deal was driven by the music company's new Soundeezer arm which seeks to bring music solutions to brands.

In October 2009, the site raised EUR6.5m (?5.75m) in new funding, bringing the total raised in funding EUR12.2m (?10.8m) since it launched in 2007.

In its original incarnation as BlogMuski, the service ran into copyright issues, but as Deezer it has several content agreements in place.

At the end of 2009, Deezer stated it had 10m users in Europe, 6m of ...